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Comment by jksmith | Hacker News Reader

Please, for the love of conciseness, never assign a boolean based on an if statement.

What if the assignment to the boolean was only one of the things you wanted to execute based on the result of the if statement?

It's not

Even then, I'd rather see:

DEBUG = socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp'

if DEBUG then...

How would you rewrite it?

  DEBUG = socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp'